obiurgo

• IPA^(key): /oˈbjur.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -urɡo
• Hyphenation: o‧biùr‧go

obiurgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of obiurgare

• objūrgō

From ob- (“to, against”) +‎ iūrgō (“dispute, chide”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔbˈjuːr.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [obˈjur.ɡo]

obiūrgō (present infinitive obiūrgāre, perfect active obiūrgāvī, supine obiūrgātum); first conjugation

1. to chide, scold, rebuke, reprimand

   Synonyms: castīgō, perstringō, corripiō, accūsō, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, increpō, acclāmō, exprobrō, inclāmō, arguō, animadvertō, reprehendō, compellō

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 141–143:

     Rēctē putās; / nam sī illum obiūrgēs vītae quī auxilium tulit, / quid faciās illī quī dederit damnum aut malum?

     You’re corrrect; for if you were to scold someone who brought help, what would you do to someone who gave harm or evil?
     (Second person singular present active subjunctive, used in a future less vivid conditional clause.)

2. to chastise, punish

   Synonyms: castīgō, mulctō, multō, pūniō, expiō, moneō, animadvertō, ulcīscor, plēctō, exsequor

3. to dissuade or deter one from any thing, by means of reproof

   Synonyms: dissuādeō, tardō

   Antonyms: suādeō, persuādeō

4. to exhort, urge reprovingly

• obiūrgitō

• obiūrgātiō
• obiūrgātor
• obiūrgātōrius

• English: objurgate
• Italian: obiurgare

• “obiurgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obiurgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers